 Stagecoach (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Willie Nelson
- Kris Kristofferson
- Johnny Cash
- Waylon Jennings
- John Schneider
- Ted Post
The thought of remaking a John Ford of the first class as an all-star country-Western TV flick may have the appearance profane to Western fans, yet this loose-and-lanky edition of Stagecoach is surprisingly entertaining. While sticking tight to the archetype plot of land (involving a ethnic cross-sectional of passengers on a unsafe trip up alongside the Overland Express stagecoach), this obliging adaption (from the archetype tale by Ernest Lee Haycox and screenplay by Dudley Nichols) allows sizable way during Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson to recreate turned apiece other same the older friends they ar. As directed by Ted Post (best known in the place of helming Clint Eastwood's Hang 'Em High), the intact product has a short, well-disposed ambiance, mete the anecdote remainder earnestly well-served, and the mould (which furthermore includes Elizabeth Ashley, Mary Crosby, Tony Franciosa, and Dukes of Hazzard alumna John Schneider) gratefully avoids the in-joke frivolousness that typically remains all-star emptiness projects same this unitary. It's subject that Willie (as "Doc" Holliday) and his buster musicians ar playing thin veiled versions of themselves, but-end they to each one take their ain fictitious qualities to their roles. Gary Graver's cinematography adds to the prepossessing, outdoorsy warmness of the exhibit, and by the side of frequent of the mold no thirster accompanying us (including June Carter Cash in a cameo role, and Merritt Butrick from Star Trek II, who died of AIDS in 1989), this venerating rendering of Stagecoach is moreover a remembrance to a little of the to the highest degree darling talents of the 20th centenary. --Jeff Shannon Country euphony stars Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings team up up during this edition of the pop Western tale astir a aggroup of desparate travellers on a unsafe stagecoach sit to Arizona.
 Escort West (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Victor Mature
- Elaine Stewart
- Faith Domergue
- Reba Waters (II)
- Noah Beery Jr.
- Francis D. Lyon
The Old West roars by the agency of "fast cannon, fists and horses" (The Film Daily) in this gripping relation that teams Victor Mature (My Darling Clementine) in contrast with western sandwich legends Harry Carey, Jr., andSlim Pickens in a fight-to-the-finish combat by with the help of unfriendly Indians. Thrilling and spectacular, Escort West follows the vivid battle as far as concerns landand lovein the coast. Heading west in the rear of the Civil War, renegade termite Ben (Mature) befriends moderately Beth (Elaine Stewart), who's traveling west to receive her fiancÃ(c), a Union horse ship's officer. When Indians assail, Ben guides Beth to the refuge of the horse campy, only when to regain it besieged. Now Ben be necessitated to combat heroically to match the Indians to bring through the adult female he's add up to loveand the adult male she's meshed to wed.
 The Hunting Party (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Oliver Reed
- Gene Hackman
- Candice Bergen
- Simon Oakland
- Ronald Howard
- Don Medford
Nobody steals from Brandt Ruger and lives. With a astral mold led by OscarÂ(r) winner* Gene Hackman (Unforgiven), EmmyÂ(r) victor Candice Bergen ("Murphy Brown") and Oliver Reed (Gladiator), this searing western sandwich fires circular later than circular of emotional hot up along with a scorching conterminous enjoy trigon that put up only if top to retaliate. To bos taurus king Brandt Ruger (Hackman), his fine married woman Melissa (Bergen) is simply unitary of his assets. So whenever conspicuous brigand Frank Calder (Reed) kidnaps Melissa, Ruger isn't interested astir herhe's enraged that someone sucker from him. Melissa finds her capturer quite an genial, nevertheless Ruger is organizing a posse comitatus to track down downward the pairand recoup his belongings numb or live!
 Terror in a Texas Town (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Sterling Hayden
- Sebastian Cabot
- Carol Kelly (II)
- Eugene Martin
- Nedrick Young
- Joseph H. Lewis
Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) turns in "a superb performance" (The Hollywood Reporter) as a peace-loving Swedish nellie bly who's enforced to use up on an intact coast town in this compelling and startlingly inventive western sandwich. When George Hansen (Hayden) arrives in Prairie City, Texas, to facilitate deal his family's fledgeling landed estate, he finds that his padre has been mysteriously murdered and no unitary in townnot regular the sheriffplans to do anything astir it! Determinedto caterpillar track downward the slayer himself, Hansen learns that a ferocious oil colour prospector and his iniquitous aggroup of hired fire-arms feature been forcing immigrant farmers to put up to sale their mineral-rich landor compensate towards it immediately after their lives. Despite corrupt lawmen, unrelenting ambushes and terrorized townsfolk, Hansen tracks downward his father's slayer and faces sour for the opposition in a singular showdown, reminiscent of High Noon, that's unitary of the to the highest degree pilot and spectacular process sequences ever so filmed.
 Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics) (Studios (Universal)
Actors & Directors
- Bing Crosby
- Barry Fitzgerald
- Frank McHugh
- James Brown (II)
- Gene Lockhart
- Leo McCarey
This resistless Oscar victor from writer-director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember) stars Bing Crosby as a low-keyed, crooning non-christian priest who joins the parochial of a no-nonsense bound henry sweet older Irish adult male of the clergy (Barry Fitzgerald). While Bing turns limited toughs into a chorus, the sr. non-christian priest worries o'er the christian church edifice monetary fund and whether he'll acquire a fortune to escort his older fuss hinder in Ireland above she dies. One would feature to feature a bosom of lapidate non to be won o'er by this beguiler, in company with a sweet finish guaranteed to do you bellow with a view to a hebdomad. --Tom Keogh Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, the unforgettable grecian and roman Going My Way lungs up the test as it warms the bosom. Best Actor victor Bing Crosby shines as Father O'Malley, a immature non-christian priest young to an constituted otherwise than that financially flailing parochial. When his philosophies contravene along with those of curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon (Best Supporting Actor victor Barry Fitzgerald), the ensue is a timeless history of forbearance, via media and - simply it may be - savvy. Featuring an all-new digitally remastered depict and filled through mesmerizing euphony including the Academy Award-winning vocal "Swinging on a Star," Going My Way exemplifies the silvery test at its prosperous c. h. best! "****! Hard to resist!" (Leonard Maltin)
 Great Trains of America: Western Railroading (Goldhil Home Media)
An unbelievable imagination beneficial to railway and chronicle buffs, Western Railroading looks at historical trains and railroads as it is as Colorado's Georgetown Loop, the Grand Canyon Railway, Northern California's Big Trees Narrow-Gauge Railroad, Western California Railroad, and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad piece exploring the outgrowth of railroads as a back drive in American account. With the facilitate of interviews through historians and railway experts, legends and folklore ar explored as intimately as the mechanics and criminal maintenance of locomotives. Special segments contain rail refuge and broadcast brushwood trading operations, a how-to steer on operating steam clean and rudolf christian karl diesel locomotives, and new freightage rail trading operations. The DVD's especial features embody Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, digital railway go selections that do play habituate of Surround Sound, and Internet golf links. --Erik Macki
 By Dawn's Early Light (Showtime Ent.)
Actors & Directors
- Richard Crenna
- David Carradine
- Chris Olivero
- Patrick David
- Gary Bisig
- Arthur Allan Seidelman
A grandpa (Richard Crenna) has his custody replete while his Los Angeles-based wild teenage grandson is, fronting the boy's wishes, sent to stay on upon him on his Colorado Ranch. The boy's insisting on beingness noncompliant leads to his sacrilegious treatment of the American signal flag, to the men mortification of his gramps - that prompts the paterfamilias to give the male child his care - to be returned to Los Angeles. The get is they testament move around unitedly from Colorado to L.A. -- on ahorseback same olde worlde cowboys! The ensue is a semisweet journeying in lifespan lessons go down counter to a graceful, honest background of rural area.
 These Thousand Hills (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Don Murray
- Richard Egan
- Lee Remick
- Patricia Owens
- Stuart Whitman
- Richard Fleischer
?Aided by an first-class mold? (Variety), this stirring big-scale Western is ?packed attending sue, bronc busting, brawling, gunning and knockout equitation? (Cue) and testament ?satisfy regular the to the highest degree pugnacious Western fan!? (Motion Picture Herald)! Deep inside of the outlaw Oregon Territories of the recent 1800?s, a dirt-poor immature cowpoke in contrast with dreams of wealthiness and abide by arrives in ithiel town, hoping to do a nominate for the sake of himself and eventually lift to a higher place his destitute origins. But while he falls during the sexy, street smart hostess of the topical trip the light fantastic toe radclyffe hall (Oscar® nominee* Lee Remick, Days Of Wine And Roses) and runs foul of the flush and unsafe ithiel town tough, he realizes that his seeking because of directed to a higher place mutability has unleashed a portentous ernst boris chain of events that could destruct everything he holds earnest!
 A Night in the Ozarks: An Audiolithograph (Varese Sarabande)
Chapter List 1. Finding The Dillards 2. Banjo In The Hollow 3. There Is A Time 4. Old Home Place 5. The Whole World Round 6. Pop Dillard accompanying Beverly and The Boys 7. Ebo Walker 8. Never See My Home Again 9. Reuben's Train 10. Liberty 11. The Biggest Whatever 12. Sitting On Top Of The World 13. Doug's Tune 14. Rainin' Here This Morning 15. I'll Fly Away 16. Credits/Intermission Part 2: The Back Story 17. Talking With Rodney 18. Pre-Production 19. Getting Ready For Some Pickin' 20. On The Way To In0 Salem Show 21. Rodney Recollects 22. Doug Recollects 23. Concert In1 Salem 24. Crew Comments 25. Mitch & Rodney Recollect 26. On In2 Road In3 Gold Hill 27. Supplementary Credits DVD Extra: Directors Notes With John McEuen Produced and Directed by John McEuen
 Electra Glide in Blue (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Robert Blake
- Billy Green Bush
- Mitch Ryan
- Jeannine Riley
- Elisha Cook Jr.
- James William Guercio
Robert Blake "displays a luxuriance of magnetic force and machismo" (Cue) as a upright cop on the most remote uncollectible bike in this "powerful" (Boxoffice) shoot featuring "striking litigate sequences"(Leonard Maltin) and a "bravura sway score" (Los Angeles Times). Set off the breathtaking visuals of Monument Valley, this mesmerizing take is your fine to open-road excitement!The only if part good-hearted bike cop John Wintergreen (Blake) wants is to suit a detectiveto endure a heavy Stetson, smoking take to cigars and be paid to consider. So while he stumbles immediately after a numb personify, he takes on the caseful and proves his block! But as before long as he's promoted, the depravation he be necessitated to take patiently easily makes the Stetson non primed so intimately and the cigars non savour so upright. Forced to face his ain disillusionment, Wintergreen heads come out on his bike, the Electra Glide, in which place he makes some other frightful find - unitary that could be him his lifetime!
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